The Memoirs of Count Gozzi. Translated into English by John Addington Symonds. With Essays on Italian Impromptu Comedy, Gozzi's Life, The Dramatic Fables, and Pietro Longhi by the Translator
London, Nimmo, 1890.
Small quarto, two volumes, [ii], xvi, 371 and [vi], 379 pages plus a frontispiece 'portrait and six original etchings by Adolphe Lalauze, also eleven subjects illustrating Italian comedy by Maurice Sand, engraved on copper by A. Manceau, and coloured by hand' (and most charming they are too).
Later gilt-decorated half calf and cloth (by Birdsall), top edges gilt, other edges uncut; leather very slightly rubbed at the extremities, with the bottom 60 mm of the front joint of the second volume cracked (but still very firm); cloth a little foxed; slight foxing to the uncut edges, marbled endpapers, binder's blanks, first and last pages (and very rarely to a margin elsewhere); a few trifling glue and paper residue marks on the pastedowns of the second volume; gilt-armorial cloth from the original front covers and the (heavily sunned) original spines are mounted and bound in at the rear of each volume; an excellent set.
A 'brilliant, though prolix and desultry, portraiture of life in Venice' during the eighteenth century. Number 135 of only 520 sets printed for England (with a further 260 sets for America). This set has an Adrian Feint-designed bookplate of [Sir] James McGregor in each volume. [2 items].
Item #77408
Price (AUD):
$450.00